Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,406, Samuel Everson, Mass. Mass. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Conversan, Daniel
S. 30406
Mass. Sea Service
CONTENTS

10.9.32
10-9-32 Massachusetts
Daniel Everson
Inscribed on the Roll of Meas at the rate of 212 Dollars 216 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of May 1833 and sent G H Lord Plymouth (Parker)
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $84.92 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 21.23 $106.15
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk Book 6, Vol. 2, Page 21,

96/2 Samuel Everson

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this twentieth day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate being a Court of Pleas now sitting at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth, Samuel E. Verson a resident of Kingston in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
On the last of June or first of July in the year 1779 he entered the service of the United States and joined the Company of Capt. Edward Sparrow in Col. Tylers Regiment stationed at Providence & Bristol in the state of Rhode Island and was discharged at the end of six months which was the first of June 1780 and returned to Kingston in Plymouth County. He has no written discharge was in no battle. This was in Massachusetts Militia. Tobias Chandler of P. County was also of Capt. Sparrows Company, whose Deposition has been obtained. In the beginning of Autumn in ye. Year 1780 he was hired by the Inhabitants of ye. Town of Kingston as one of the number required of said Town for the term of three months & was duty in ye. Company commanded by Capt. Jesse Stratton.

Mehemiah Cobb Lieut. he acted as Corporal He was stationed on Butts hill on Rhode Island the French fleet then lying in Newport Harbor He was in no battle. has no written discharge for proof see Joseph Surrans certificate as T. Clark
That on the tenth day of May 1782 he enlisted in the state service on board States Sloop Winthrop commanded by Capt. George Little and served under P r Little in said Sloop Winthrop the term of two months & 26 days - was discharged and rec d . his pay. in proof of this last term of service he offers the accompanying certificate of the Secretary of y e Commonwealth as the best proof being that he can procure.
He was born in the town of Kingston in 1762 and has always had his home in that town. He does not know of any record of his birth.
Sam l Evergreen
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this twen- tieth day of August A.D. 1832.
Attest Jacob H. Lord
Register

We, a clergyman, residing in the town of  and residing in the hereby certify, that we are well ac- quainted with  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be  years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that  who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of  and that  who has  also signed the same, is a resident in the  and is a credible  person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By order of the Court, Attest, Jacob H. Lord Register
I, Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Eversan for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one tho' 1 eight hundred and thirty two!
Jacob H. Loud

9672
Samuel Evertson
Seaman 2 Mo 26 days
Captain 3 "
Private 6 "
11. 26
$22.46.
St. Louis Mo Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Everson County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1779 last June 6 private Gen. Col Tyler & Capt Sparrow   on 1st July 3 corporal Capt Sturtevant   fall, 1780 2. 26 private Capt Little   10th May 1782 sailor  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hingston Mass
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness. records of the town of Hingston Mass, also Secretary's Office Mass
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Jno Watson  21st feby 1833
Examining Clerk.

SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.
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PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 22977
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137.
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Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering PENSION Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job Photostatic copies of 5 pages from Rev. War pension claim of Samuel Everson, S.30406, Mass. Service.
No. of copies 2 of each page one negative set, one positive set. shall form be kept standing? ..... days
For further information see M. M. H. Finch Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
Approved: Ad. Wilkinson Chief Clerk of Bureau.
Margaret M. H. Finch Chief of Branch of Division .
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Isms to 3-2233
15822
April 23, 1928
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
..... Apr. 23, 1928
Chief Rev. and 1812 Wars Section Division.
I have this day received from
Evelyn B. Baldwin
cash in the amount
of $ 1 50 , requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith.
Copies for nickel Did M.F.W. Apr. 28-28
O. J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division.
15822
tatic copies of five pages(both ) from Rev. War pension claim of ps, S. 30406/ Not to be certified.
Baldwin, Libby, Say D.M.
Margaret M. Welch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

April 23, 1928
Commissioner of Pensions Sir:
Please furnish photostatic copies of five pages (both negative and positive sets) from Rev. War pension claim of Samuel Everson, Mass. Troops, S. 30406/ Not to be certified.
Signed,
Evelyn B. Baldwin, Naval Records & Library, Navy Dept.
Received payment
$ 1.50
April 23, 1928
Margaret M. H. Finch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

30406 INVALID. Rey
1928-Sept. 28-Photos to E.B. Baldwin. MMVII
File No. 30406
Samuel Emerson
Coef. Rev. Mass
Act: June 7 th 1897
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Everson which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? no
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
☞ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

I hereby certify that it appears from the Records of the town of Kingston in the County of Plymouth that at a public meeting of the Inhabitants of said town holden on the 4 th day of July A.D. 1780 a committee was chosen to raise "such quota of men" as the town had been called upon by resolves of the General Assembly of the 5 th 22 nd & 23 rd of June of that year "to raise for compleating the Battalions of this State and to supply as Militia" of that said committee reported to the town at a public meeting of the Inhabitants thereof holden on the 13 th day October 1780 that among others they had engaged Samuel Everson "for the three months service " - also that at a public meeting of the Inhabitants of said town holden on the 18 th day of December A.D. 1780 a committee was chosen to see what was due to each of the Soldiers that were raised for the three & six months campaign "to report to the town at this or some future meeting" - said committee reported to the town at a public meeting of the Inhabitants thereof holden on the 8 th day of January A.D. 1781 - that there was due to Samuel Everson for two months & 29 days service 55 5/8 Bushells of corn at $45 per bushell equal to $4187 1/2 - the town accepted said report & directed the Treasurers to pay the same
Joseph Sampson - Clerk of the town of Kingston in the County of Plymouth

Plymouth ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth, being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Joseph Sampson Esquire is Clerk of the town of Kingston & that he made Oath to the truth of the within certificate in Probate Court this twentieth day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court the day & year aforesaid Jacob H. Lord

I Lebedee Chandler of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts of the age of Sixty eight years Testify and say that I was in the war of the American Revolution and enlisted and went to Rhode Island in the year 1779 For Six Months in Capt Edward Knowles Company and in Colo. Tillet's Regiment Stationed at Providence and Bristol
I Further testify and say I knew Samuel Dyer of Kingston in the County of Plymouth who was in said Knowles Company the same term of time of Six Months Dismissed from said Service the first of January 1780 - which is according to the best of my recollection and have always known said Dyer ever since and has resided in Kingston
Lebedee Chandler

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.
August 7th 1882 then Personally appeared the within named Lebedee Chandler before the subscriber and made oath that the within Deposition by him subscribed is true I certify said Deposition is a credible witness
Jonathan Parker { Justice of the Peace
Plymouth ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth being a Court of Record do here by certify that Jonathan Parker Esq. before whom the with- in Deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace & that his name above subscribed is his true & genuine signature. The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twentieth day of August A.D. 1882 Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 16 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Samuel Everson served on Board States Sloop Winthrop Capt Little from May 10 th to August 6 th 1782 A term of two months & 26 Days That his pay was 32 £ per month and that he rec d £5-13-8 d for his services
Edward D Bangs Secy.